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barbara pinto was in the courtroom. >> reporter: it was the one unanswered question. what happened to elizabeth smart during her ne-month captivity. she never said. >> i have to much to live for. i just don't need to look back. >> reporter: not in interviews. >> i don't think that -- that any child, or any human should ever be in danger of having that happen again. >> reporter: not to her parents. >> likewiois and i, we heard bid pieces. we don't feel the need to know what happened. >> reporter: the question was answered today and it was much more horrific than anyone could have ever imagined. >> there were certainly a lot of things that i had never heard before, and i had -- i had no idea what she had gone through. >> reporter: today, elizabeth smart marched into court, ready to finally confront the man accused of holding her captive. six years after brian david mitchell's arrest, the homeless, self-proclaimed profit refused to submit to psychiatric tests. her words could prove he's fit to stand trial. >> nose witnesses that observed him are the most important, and n
barbara pinto was in the courtroom. >> reporter: it was the one unanswered question. what happened to elizabeth smart during her ne-month captivity. she never said. >> i have to much to live for. i just don't need to look back. >> reporter: not in interviews. >> i don't think that -- that any child, or any human should ever be in danger of having that happen again. >> reporter: not to her parents. >> likewiois and i, we heard bid pieces. we don't feel the...
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barbara pinto has details. >> reporter: elizabeth smart went to court, to describe the ordeal of being held captive. the self-proclaimed prophet, refused to submit to psychiatric tests. her words may prove he's fit to stand trial. smart described the horror she endured, at the hands of the man who held her captive. saying, there wasn't an actual 24-hour period that he wasn't able to rape me. we learn more details of her fright nng day-to-day. he had a big cable bolted on to my leg, which was strung between two trees with a lock, she said. he had the key around his neck. she was given alcohol and drugs. and was traipsed around the country, she said, begs for money and food. it was revealed that mitchell raped the teen at will. she testified in court. anything i showed resistance or hesitation to, he would turn to me and say, the lord commanded you to do this. you have to experience the lowest form of humanity to experience the highest. smart cast mitchell as a sexually obsessed drifter, who moved her from state-to-state. and even tried to kidnap another young girl. years later, the teen
barbara pinto has details. >> reporter: elizabeth smart went to court, to describe the ordeal of being held captive. the self-proclaimed prophet, refused to submit to psychiatric tests. her words may prove he's fit to stand trial. smart described the horror she endured, at the hands of the man who held her captive. saying, there wasn't an actual 24-hour period that he wasn't able to rape me. we learn more details of her fright nng day-to-day. he had a big cable bolted on to my leg, which...
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barbara pinto. abc news, detroit. >>> next, we turn to the war in afghanistan. it began eight years ago today, as president bush announced that he had launched air strikes against the taliban, less than a month after 9/11. the president said the war was designed to close taliban training camps, and force the handover of al qaeda leaders. >> given the nature and reach of our enemies, we will win this conflict by the patient accumulation of successes. by meeting a series of challenges with determination and will and purpose. >> since the president made that announcement, and since the war began, 791 u.s. troops have been killed in afghanistan. nearly a third of those in this year alone. it is against this backdrop that president obama is considering the way forward and whether thousands more troops should be sent into battle. and martha raddatz is joining us from washington tonight. and martha, we learned that the president has had on his desk for some time now a request for a specific number of additional troops, right? >> reporter: right. and this was a surprise
barbara pinto. abc news, detroit. >>> next, we turn to the war in afghanistan. it began eight years ago today, as president bush announced that he had launched air strikes against the taliban, less than a month after 9/11. the president said the war was designed to close taliban training camps, and force the handover of al qaeda leaders. >> given the nature and reach of our enemies, we will win this conflict by the patient accumulation of successes. by meeting a series of...
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abc's barbara pinto has the latest. >> reporter: for drew peterson the former police officer now charged with murder, it was a bad day in court. not only did a judge refuse to move the highly publicized trial to another county, the court also upheld a new law that would admit hearsay as evidence essentially allowing his third wife kathleen savio to testify from the grave about her belief that peterson wanted to kill her. >> we still believe that a jury will be able to differentiate between gossip and real evidence. >> reporter: savio was found dead in a dry bathtub with a bloody gash in her skull. peterson who gained 20 pounds since going to prison is the key suspect in the disappearance of his fourth wife stacy and now lisa wall, the daughter of wife number two, vicki connelly is co-writing a book detailing the years of abuse and bullying she says both she and her mother suffered at the hands of her former stepfather. among the claims -- >> within a month or two of being married he put a gun to her head after she informed him she would not love him more than she loved lisa. >> reporter:
abc's barbara pinto has the latest. >> reporter: for drew peterson the former police officer now charged with murder, it was a bad day in court. not only did a judge refuse to move the highly publicized trial to another county, the court also upheld a new law that would admit hearsay as evidence essentially allowing his third wife kathleen savio to testify from the grave about her belief that peterson wanted to kill her. >> we still believe that a jury will be able to differentiate...
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i'm barbara pinto for ""nightline"" in salt lake city. >> this is such a deep secret. she never even told her parents. throughout numerous national interviews, including oprah, she did not get into the depth of exactly what happened that we heard today, horrifying details. >> we're just now finding out some of that stuff. barbara mentioned this mission trip she's going on, this competency hearing was supposed to happen in november but it was moved up because elizabeth smart's a devout mormon and she had this trip planned for paris so they coaccommodated that. >> wait a minute, it's not supposed to invoke laughter. this is an emotional moment. as far as we know you are the first anchor of the show to ever get married while actually anchoring the news. not like tiny tim like during the show. there have been divorces. anchors of split up with their spouses. this is the fires time we've ever had a marriage. allow us to be self-indulgent while you sit on the couch in your underpants. this is vinita's last day with us before she goes off to be married. let's travel back to j
i'm barbara pinto for ""nightline"" in salt lake city. >> this is such a deep secret. she never even told her parents. throughout numerous national interviews, including oprah, she did not get into the depth of exactly what happened that we heard today, horrifying details. >> we're just now finding out some of that stuff. barbara mentioned this mission trip she's going on, this competency hearing was supposed to happen in november but it was moved up because...
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for "good morning america," barbara pinto, abc news, salt lake city. >>> and her father, ed smart, joining us, live, now, from salt lake city, utah. and, ed, we saw you. tears in your eyes. these were details she had not ever told you? >> you know, i knew it somewhat. but i just had no idea of the scope of what she went through. i just -- i couldn't believe that anyone would be such an animal. >> and i know, because you told me years ago, that you had been advised not press her. let her tell you everything in her time. what did she say to you afterwards? what did you say to each other? >> you know, i just told her how proud i was, to sit there in that courtroom, and hear, basically, her story and the story of brian david mitchell, from the time he was young, to this point in time. i just -- i couldn't believe anyone could be so abusive, so self-absorbed, and so selfish, as to do and to hide behind the skirt of religion, that he has. it's just -- >> well -- >> outrageous. >> for seven year, i know you've been trying to seek justice on this case. but two times, he has been found delusional.
for "good morning america," barbara pinto, abc news, salt lake city. >>> and her father, ed smart, joining us, live, now, from salt lake city, utah. and, ed, we saw you. tears in your eyes. these were details she had not ever told you? >> you know, i knew it somewhat. but i just had no idea of the scope of what she went through. i just -- i couldn't believe that anyone would be such an animal. >> and i know, because you told me years ago, that you had been advised...
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our barbara pinto joins us live from salt lake city, where smart will give courtroom testimony later today. good morning, barbara. >> reporter: good morning, robin. here in court, elizabeth smart is expected to confront the man who held her captive for nine months. for the past six years, brian david mitchell, a self-proclaimed prophet, has refused to submit to psychiatric testing, breaking into song in court. and elizabeth smart's teimony today would be crucial, on whether or not he's found competent to stand trial. is he cunning or insane? brian david mitchell, a homeless man who called him emmanuel, the prophet, is to be arraigned on charges he kidnapped and assaulted elizabeth smart. >> i think he's manipulated the system to the nth degree. he is confident. he's a pedophile. and he needs to be brought to trial. >> reporter: in detail she has yet to tell her parent, elizabeth smart will paint an image of the man who abducted her and kept her for nine months. elizabeth says she's determined and ready to testify. >> i don't want them ever out because i really believe that they would
our barbara pinto joins us live from salt lake city, where smart will give courtroom testimony later today. good morning, barbara. >> reporter: good morning, robin. here in court, elizabeth smart is expected to confront the man who held her captive for nine months. for the past six years, brian david mitchell, a self-proclaimed prophet, has refused to submit to psychiatric testing, breaking into song in court. and elizabeth smart's teimony today would be crucial, on whether or not he's...